"Disappointing" attendances

[Scaring Europe to Death]

This started with the 50th anniversary of Munich, and then the media reaction to the Tevez Poster

Only City spend £200m on Full Backs (it must be true because Mourinho said so)

Only City commit tactical fouls

Only City pay high wages

Only City inflate sponsorship dealings

Only City have empty seats

It’s the Law!

 

[jrb]

When Fergie called out United’s support for being shite, it’s never been forgotten on the away terraces.

I bet Fergie regrets saying that to this day.

Pepe needs to be careful he doesn’t do the same about our support.

 

[Rochdale Blue]

People do get attached to their seats and the people around them, I could understand them avoiding this game with all the factors around it.

I relocated to level 2 yesterday and didn't see one familiar face. The club give the impression they couldn't care less about the inconvenience caused or the possible loss of ticket sales.

 

[Manchester33]

If it was up to me I'd leave out the entire first team squad for League cup fixtures, play a mix and match XI in the FA cup (if odd players need game time or its stronger opposition) and once we'd qualified for the knockout stages of the champions League of throw the kids in again.

I disagree with this. When I was in school I was desperate to watch City win a trophy. I'd have given one of my bollocks for a League Cup triumph. These are the glory years for us. Although I can't see that changing any time soon, we won't be this good forever. We have the squad to compete across all competitions (as we proved last year).

 

[JGL07]

As the two matches (Fulham and United) are very different you cannot generalise much about them.

The Fulham match attendance, based on experience from the last five top ten years, looks quite good. This is especially the case given the stupid kickoff time, live coverage on the BBC and late January when many will not have been paid for six weeks. Recently home FA Cup attendances have improved with some near sell-outs in the early rounds. The failure to hit 40,000 was probably down to a perfect storm with the factors mentioned earlier to which can be added foul weather and weakened teams, Not to mention having a LC semifinal and a CL match against Real Madrid all on sale. Could the club have done more on the pricing structure to help the crowd? Probably not.

The Unoted match is probably more to do with the stupid two-legged format of the EFL Cup semifinals. You don't find it anywhere else apart from CL/EL knock-out rounds and promotion playoffs. The problem is with City winning 3-1 away (if should have been at least 6), this has the look of a dead rubber. In addition the clubs (and the police) made a grave error in reducing away ticket allocations. This led to restrictions on ticket sales. You can see why they were used to prevent United fans getting in the home areas. That would not have happened if United were given a bigger allocation. Had the Rags been given the same allocation as Port Vale we would probably be looking at a sell out.

 

[blue corby]

I relocated to level 2 yesterday and didn't see one familiar face. The club give the impression they couldn't care less about the inconvenience caused or the possible loss of ticket sales.

We sat in our normal seats and there was hardly a familiar face around us. Most we sit with are season card holders but most were missing and replaced with people using those bloody clappers the club gave away, not just kids either.

 

[Gordyola]

Have the club taken the money for the Real Madrid game from those on the CL scheme yet?

In one way I'm glad he talked about it as it gives me another bit of ammunition to go to the club & talk (again) about their whole strategic approach to building the future fan base.

Not until next week Its show as a notification on your account this can be ignored

 

[levets]

Then use Newcastle as the example of how to do it
Bearing in mind the fans hate the board and team haven’t won a thing in my lifetime

Newcastle? 29k at home in round 3

 

[burnley blue mcfc]

At least!

A fucking outrage that attendance. There were folk sat in the aisles in all the stands, most especially the Platt Lane, and the Kippax was so overcrowded it must have been unsafe. It certainly looked it. Swales was an absolute liberty taking cünt. A small-time chancer who blagged his way to getting control of our club.

Not sure if I've posted this before, but I was right next to the tunnel for that game. I was on Match of the Day when the teams came out! My dad sorted the ticket out about two hours before kick-off from a ‘business associate’ and slapped it in my hand. Made up, although I’d lost a little bit of interest in City after we got relegated in ‘83 if I’m being entirely honest. Not hugely, but City just became slightly less important. That game reignited my fire, which remained even when we went to shit. One of my favourite ever games. Brilliant day to be at the old stadium.

I was 16 yrs old and the kippax was a scarey place that day!! Never seen it as rammed packed before or after for that matter, must’ve been at least 25,000 in kippax alone & nearer 57 rather than swales’s 47,000 in the ground

 

[jrb]

Regardless of what Pep said Yesterday, it has had no effect on ticket sales for the derby.

When those running the club decided along with United, or without United, to charge £50 for an Adult ticket on L2, and £35 elsewhere in the stadium for an Adult ticket, minus those in the cup scheme, you know they have lost all sense of reality, especially when they knew about all the games coming up over Christmas and the New Year, and the Real Madrid money being taken out of People’e Bank accounts even though the match isn’t the 17TH of MARCH.

I appreciate that Real Madrid money is better off being in City’s Bank account where it can earn a bit of interest instead of being in our banks accounts until late February.